Weather

If you haven’t broken out that snow shovel yet, just look outside because its time.

Severe weather is on its way to Missoula and the surrounding area. General Forecaster for the National Weather Service, Jeff Kitsmiller explains what the local valleys can expect on Wednesday night and Thursday.

If you haven’t already gotten on the road to celebrate the holidays with friends and family – or run away from them – here are a few safety tips to make your holiday season a happy and secure one.

According to The 2012 Old Farmer’s Almanac, this winter will bring above-normal temperatures, on average, across much of the United States. The season will be punctuated by several very cold periods.

A warm fall and late rain helped boost the sugar beet crop in northern Wyoming. The Western Sugar Cooperative announced this week that its Lovell factory district had a record harvest. The harvest yielded 28.8 tons of beets per acre. That's above the 26-ton average seen last year as well as early predictions for this year's crop...

Here at 1290 KGVO we pride ourselves on bringing you the most current, up-to-date local news, regional news, weather and sports. In order to continue to provide great news coverage here in Western Montana we made a few changes to our morning schedule. Montana Morning offers news every 15 minutes, weather every 10 minutes and sports twice an hour.

Flooding fueled by heavy rain and the melting snow pack has swamped homes and roadways across the state since the end of May. Currently there are flood warnings in the Flathead, Granite, Missoula, Powell and Sanders counties. Meteorologist Bruce Bauck  says there will be interesting weather this week that will impact the river flows and expects Wednesday to get pretty chilly...

This weekend's State Class B-C softball tournament has been moved from Glasgow to Great Falls.

With less than a month to the official beginning of spring old man winter has released what hopefully will be one last icy breath. Meteorologist Bruce Bauck says this is unusual.

A pacific flow will have moist, warmer weather, affecting western Montana into the middle of next week.  National Weather Service Meteorologist Peter Felsch tells us what to expect.  Cold weather is forecast to return by Wednesday of next week ...